当代女权主义者对20年代妇女选举权运动的评价
Recent feminist scholarship con-
早期人们以妇女选举权运动众所周知地
cerning the United States in the 1920’s
“得到保证”来评价美国的1920’s, challenges earlier interpretations that
最近,女权主义者挑战这一观点。 Line
assessed the twenties in terms of the (5)
unkept
维修“promises” of the women’s Suffrage选举权 movement.
This new scholar-
新观点驳斥道,因为妇女在1920年获 ship disputes the long-held view that
投票权后,妇女投票组织没有实体化, because a women’s voting bloc did not
选举权不能为妇女争得长久的政治利益。 materialize after women gained the right (10)
to vote in 1920, suffrage failed to produce long-term political gains for women.
These feminist scholars also
女权学家也认为选举权失败,因为它没 challenge the old view that pronounced
有遵守妇女投票将带来道德的无腐败的 suffrage a failure for not delivering on
统治的诺言。 (15)
the promise that the women’s vote would bring about moral, corruption腐败- free governance.
Asked whether
被问到选举权是否失败时,他们引用世 women’s suffrage was a failure, these
纪交替时的社会改革家JA的话:“为 scholars cite the words of turn-of-the-
何你不问选举权是否全面失败?“ (20)
century social reformer Jane Addams, “Why don’t you ask if suffrage in general is failing?”
学者的观点认为suffrage是失败 In some ways, however, these递进
在某些方面,这些女权学者仍然认为 scholars still present the 1920’s as a
1920’s是衰落时期。 (25)
period of decline. After suffrage, they
他们说选举权后,女权运动失去了凝 argue, the feminist movement lost its
聚力,性别意识下降。 Cohesiveness凝聚力, and gender consciousness Waned衰弱.
After the mid-1920’s, few
1920’s中期后,鲜见女权改革家的成 successes could be claimed by fem-
就:在成功立法方面很少见。 (30)
inist reformers: little could be seen in the way of legislative victories.
衰退的年代 new scholarship的另一观点
During this decade, however, there
然而在此时期,以取得更多妇女自治
was intense activism aimed at achiev-
为目标的强烈的激进主义存在着,扩 ing increased autonomy for women,
宽到妇女的日常生活领域。 (35)
broadening the spheres within which they lived their daily lives.
Women’s
妇女组织的工作为妇女提供机会: organizations worked to establish opportunities for women: they strove to
他们致力于保障妇女完全的公民权利, secure for women the full entitlements
包括管理办公室及服务陪审庭的权利。 (40)
of citizenship, including the right to hold office and the right to serve on juries.
最终观点
不同意recent的观点 老新观点 逻辑简图: 1P: recent scholarship challenges earlier interpretations unkept “promise” of women suffrage. Disputes, also challenges older view… 2P: in some ways, however, decline…. 3P: during this decade, however, intense activism…. Women’ organization worked to establish opportunities for women… -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GWD-11-Q35:
The passage is primarily concerned with
- providing evidence indicating that feminist reformers of the 1920’s failed to reach some of their goals偏
- presenting scholarship that contrasts suffragist “promises” with the historical realities of the 1920’s
- discussing recent scholarship concerning the achievements of women’s suffrage during the 1920’s and presenting an alternative view of those achievements
Recent feminist scholarship concerning the United States in the 1920’schallenges earlier interpretations thatassessed the twenties in terms of theunkept “promises” of the women’ssuffrage movement.
- Outlining概括 recent findings concerning events leading to suffrage for women in the 1920’s and presenting a challenge to those findings
- providing support for a traditional view of the success of feminist attempts to increase gender consciousness among women during the 1920’s
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GWD-11-Q36:
It can be inferred that the author of the passage disagrees with the “new scholarship” mentioned in lines 6-7 regarding the
A.
degree to which the “promises” of the suffrage movement remained unkept B.
degree to which suffrage for women improved the morality of governance C.
degree to which the 1920’s represented a period of decline for the feminist movement During this decade, however, there was intense activism aimed at achieving increased autonomy for women,。。。
D.
degree of legislative success achieved by feminist reformers during the 1920’s E.
accuracy of the view that a women’s voting bloc did not materialize once suffrage was achieved -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GWD-11-Q37:
※ The purpose of the second paragraph (lines 23-31) of the passage is to - suggest a reason why suffragist “promises” were not kept
- contrast suffragist “promises” with the reality of the 1920’s
- deplore谴责、哀叹 the lack of successful feminist reform in 1920’s
- explain a view held by feminist scholars
- answer the question asked by Jane Addams
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